Difference Between Feature & Short Films

In today's lesson, as a class discussed the differences between short and featured film. Here is a few bullet point to show what we have come up with...

• One of the main differences between a shirt film and a featured film is that a short film, is shorter in duration time compared to a feature length film.
• A short film has less cast and crew members than a feature length film would have. 
• Short films are not as complex than feature length films.
• Short films have a much smaller budget than feature length films, which means that they are unable to do the amount of things that a feature film would be able to do and include.
• Short films are aimed at niche audience, which is in complete comparison to most feature length films are aimed towards the mass universal market.
• In comparison to short films, feature films are more likely to be shown in mainstream cinemas.
• Feature films have more opportunities to create franchises, compared to short films.
• Short films are generally produced and distributed by less established media institutions.
• Short films usually are produced at lower quality.
• Short films are more implicit than feature films, due to the fact that they don't have the time state everything that is going on, throughout it all. Therefore, there is less dialogue in the short film, compared to a featured film.
• Short film also make less money than featured films.